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decimation: sitting behind
a desk breeds
a kind of passive-agressive posturing syndrome
decimation: "Concretely, this has meant giving massive publicity and
a momentous political significance to the 17 people killed in the Charlie Hebdo and related attacks. This contrasts sharply with the treatment given to any number of other recent tragedies: the 1,400 girls raped by largely Pakistani gangs in Rotherham, England, the tens of thousands of victims of Islamist terrorism in Syria, and the over 4,000 people killed in the Donbass
☟︎ mircea_popescu: obviously they imagine the world is you know, someone just walked out with
a ruler cca 100 years ago
decimation: putin's landgrab of crimea has
a great deal of historical and cultural importance, of which the west is almost completely ignorant
mircea_popescu: one group is motivated by greed, which brings all the idiots out of the woodwork. the other group is motivated by broken ideology, which HAS
a barrier to entry, because you can't adhere to an ideology and act on that basis if you're arbitrarily stupid.
mircea_popescu: coderwill: I was following
a conversation on GitHub for Bitcoin.org, and found it interesting that Circle has explicitly requested to be removed from the site because it targets
a different demographic from what they are searching for. << yeah., circle is looking for suckers / idiots / people who refuse to think.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: ben_vulpes: that's precisely the current Monero architecture << heh. apparently sanity is not
a luxury product.
mircea_popescu: and he's going to try an' broadcast
a btc txn from down there.
mircea_popescu: assbot: Tinder Makes Its First Match in Antarctica -- The Cut << speaking oif which : the brave mthreat amongst us is going on
a south pole expedition like next week
mircea_popescu: hm.... i never knew an "artisan" that works wood by the truckload ? this is akin to someone claiming to be dali explaining how he gets
a truckload of paint
a week...'
nubbins`: "Professional carpenters never, ever, EVER smoke in the shop. It's an incredible fire hazard as well as
a personal danger since stimulants can increase the risk of slippage on
a power tool. My father was an avid chain smoker and would never allow tobacco in his work area."
ben_vulpes: perhaps better would be
a thing that connects to the network, slurps out unconfirmed transactions and poops that back out as the mining input...
decimation: mircea_popescu: yeah I think you have
a good point
mircea_popescu: not as to racism in any sense, but as to why it's
a bad idea
mircea_popescu: nubbins` that's
a great way to end up in 20 years surrounded by junk
mircea_popescu: "To most, the fact that Lila called Mitch
a hero for killing himself is strange. "
decimation: another obstacle, like
a hill to be leveled or
a valley to be bridged.”"
mircea_popescu: "Preference will be given to those who provide video of them damaging the finished piece with
a dremel tool." lol ok
ben_vulpes: entirely unrelated, it strikes me that
a full node should probably provide "getwork" type commands for miners
mircea_popescu: i recall this grandiose commie romanian cinema thing, where "so what do we do ?! " "well... he can jump on some ears of corn" "but the camera will pick them up". pause. "not if you cover them in
a brick painted sheet"
nubbins`: then an unrelated scuffle on the bridge led to
a man being thrown off, landing on me and killing me
nubbins`: an hero wasn't me,
a bunch of ears of corn broke my fall
nubbins`: show me an early advocate without
a severe sexual disorder
mircea_popescu: ambiguous, was
a pedo early bitcoin advocate with
a ridoinculous hourlong webshow
decimation: I suspect wash dc is one of the few cities with
a major upper class commuting culture
mircea_popescu: back in 2004, it was car after carful of people all reading
a book
mircea_popescu: we would, of course. so what the driveway cost would not be
a topic of conversation.
mircea_popescu: we meet irl once
a year, and even that's extravagant for like half the people.
decimation: pete_dushenski: aren't you
a fan of the econtalk podcast?
decimation: the problem with
a fancy interstate is that it costs
a shitton of $$$ for upkeep
mircea_popescu: when it's fucking clear what to spen the money on, so clear even
a govt could figure it out, keynesianism works.
mircea_popescu: (not for fucking, mind you. so give them
a work at home job where no woman can ever come and
a way to score nude tumblrs and that's the new economic model)
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: weren't they
a grand investment for that generation?
pete_dushenski: which would be why average joe can't wait to get
a self-driving car
mircea_popescu: people don't want to spend an hour driving, they want to spend that hour derping on
a dating app
mircea_popescu: it's only expensive because we're really done with them. otherwise, they'd be
a "great investment".
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: you're right, the identity crisis is that of americans as
a whole
mircea_popescu: merely disguises itself as "because X", like
a domestic argument. in fact, it's becaue there's going to be
a divorce.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i have
a notion of how diamond cutting works/ed
assbot: Logged on 21-01-2015 01:41:29; asciilifeform: speaking of diamonds (specifically of the synthetic variety), one possible observation here - not concerning the idiocy of the wood thing as such - is that anyone demanding
a specific 'colour' (as per the 'monolith' essay) - i.e. provenance - of object, is begging to be chumped
mircea_popescu: dude paul anka is fucking retarded. how the fuck would
a hatred of nosewoman be irrational ?
mircea_popescu: "Frank Sinatra had
a terrible temper, as shown by his irrational hatred of Barbara Streisand"
ben_vulpes ponders the notion of
a self-leveling woman
ben_vulpes: suspended
a bunch of cars right down the center of the place with flourescent tubes to evoke
a fireworks show
ben_vulpes: saw
a scad of his stuff at the guggenheim when i lived in nyc. rather fun.
mircea_popescu: dat dangling minipenis,
a foot under the all consuming hole...
mircea_popescu: i dun think there's anything more adorkably pathetic than academics aiming for political power. sort-of like the bichon frizee trying to mount
a german shepherd in heat.
mircea_popescu: It looks like he made his goal in life to be the most detestable person in the internet. (Methinks he is still nowhere near that rank, though.) However he is
a precious resource, as an expert bitcoiner who enjoys kicking some of the most sacred cows in bitcoinland.
davout: fluffypony: the saivann guy is obviously some sort of topological equivalent of
a feminist, tries to push irrelevant shit to feel like he, in some way, matters
coderwill: punkman: BF just pays
a sponsorship fee to help cover the hosting costs, and to support saivann helping maintain it and
a few other projects on there, they don't own it
assbot: Add long time duration HSTS as
a requirement for wallets by saivann · Pull Request #700 · bitcoin/bitcoin.org · GitHub ... (
http://bit.ly/1yGUhkX )
coderwill: I was following
a conversation on GitHub for Bitcoin.org, and found it interesting that Circle has explicitly requested to be removed from the site because it targets
a different demographic from what they are searching for.
fluffypony: although it'll gladly serve up work via
a GBT-style call
nubbins`: and will literally hit brown notes if connected to
a proper sound system
nubbins`: "OK, so he didn't use
a laser"
nubbins`: powerful, but so is finally fitting
a medicine ball in your asshole
cazalla: pete_dushenski, everybody's talk at you but you can't hear
a word they're saying.. just driving 'round in saddam's car
punkman: "Beyond that, this is the season when i import all my wood to get me through the next year. That means on average i have from 1 to 5 trucks showing up
a week, 1 or 2 shipments coming through customs i need to keep on top of, and also
a dozen employees to keep track of."
punkman: you could do the same job with
a dull spoon I think
nubbins`: i'm tempted to go get the design laser etched onto
a piece myself
mircea_popescu: there's
a book "luxury rotary bits management" you should read.
mircea_popescu: "the winner of world war three was
a good man, right ?
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: come to think of it, mitch has been by assets before but under
a pseudonym
ben_vulpes: anyways, how does this work in practice: 2 mining pools release
a block (B, C), building off the prev (
A) - do miners arbitrarily choose which child block to continue building on?
pete_dushenski: then he said "oh, what about this conference?" and i told him to leave
a comment if he was interested
nubbins`: i'd recommend someone else watch it and give you
a summary
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: mitch runs
a little coding shop, they do some web design as well
mircea_popescu: i thought nubbins was contemplating
a genderbendin' surgical intervention.